I’m surprised that you are still doing weekly inspections, I was advised not to be going in at this time of the year due to the robbing attraction. I had a game trying to get the strips out as they had stuck them down with propolis which made it difficult to get out, plus they were super grumpy that they were being disturbed.🤣
Last year we had stopped completely but this year I don’t know what it is but our bees are just insisting on trying to swarm. Maybe they’re too tightly condensed I don’t know?
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋😃 nice strong colony's. Whoever told you that rubbish about swarm cells @ 11:20 into the video needs his/her head read that's utter rubbish 😂 this is a generalisation but swarm cells tend to be built near the bottom of the comb but not always 🙄 and supersede cells tend to be in the middle to the top of the frame but not always 🙄 and emergency queen generation cells will be anywhere there's brood the correct age. You will 98% of the time rarely have only one cell for swarming or supersede or emergency. Swarm cells mean cramped conditions and too many bee's, supersede cells mean the bee's have detected a issue and it may not be readily apparent what that is, sometimes the queen starts firing blanks (drone eggs) which is easy to spot or her pheromone production drops which isn't 😂 emergency queen cells mean you've lost the queen. try to nail swarm cells BEFORE they are capped, once they're capped the clock runs rapidly for a swarm to break.
I know that’s it makes no sense! The way I see it is, it’s a cell with a new Queen, something isn’t right 😂 I think they might just be a bit too condensed maybe most of them are still covering all the frames
I would get everything strapped down this week, bad storm tracking from the atlantic, hitting us next week.
I’m surprised that you are still doing weekly inspections, I was advised not to be going in at this time of the year due to the robbing attraction.
I had a game trying to get the strips out as they had stuck them down with propolis which made it difficult to get out, plus they were super grumpy that they were being disturbed.🤣
Last year we had stopped completely but this year I don’t know what it is but our bees are just insisting on trying to swarm. Maybe they’re too tightly condensed I don’t know?
Hi from southern New Zealand 👋😃 nice strong colony's. Whoever told you that rubbish about swarm cells @ 11:20 into the video needs his/her head read that's utter rubbish 😂 this is a generalisation but swarm cells tend to be built near the bottom of the comb but not always 🙄 and supersede cells tend to be in the middle to the top of the frame but not always 🙄 and emergency queen generation cells will be anywhere there's brood the correct age. You will 98% of the time rarely have only one cell for swarming or supersede or emergency. Swarm cells mean cramped conditions and too many bee's, supersede cells mean the bee's have detected a issue and it may not be readily apparent what that is, sometimes the queen starts firing blanks (drone eggs) which is easy to spot or her pheromone production drops which isn't 😂 emergency queen cells mean you've lost the queen. try to nail swarm cells BEFORE they are capped, once they're capped the clock runs rapidly for a swarm to break.
I know that’s it makes no sense! The way I see it is, it’s a cell with a new Queen, something isn’t right 😂 I think they might just be a bit too condensed maybe most of them are still covering all the frames